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Through the Grama
For February at 6500′, it’s a warm day–about 40 degrees–and the sun makes it feel even warmer as we hike across the windswept grassland plateau. Snow still blankets the north-facing slopes, but the...
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The nature of loss
I’ve often (somewhat seriously) joked that the only reason I’d want to be the President of the United States is because of the Antiquities Act. This law enables the President–with the swipe of a...
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A Canyon Offering
Once I got to the ground, I laid down on the cold Navajo Sandstone, preparing to belay my friends who would be joining me by rappelling over 300 feet into this remote canyon nestled deep inside the...
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The Preservation of Us
“Dammit!” I never thought I’d roll an ankle so badly that it would bring me off my feet, but as I hit the ground after slipping from the curb, I let out a cry of both frustration and pain, certain I’d...
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A dew-covered world
This last weekend, my family and I visited the eastern Sierra for an event I was attending. We had a few extra hours on Saturday afternoon and decided to drive up to Tuolumne Meadows. On our way up...
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Chasing Set
“You will then…quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles…each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature’s heart.” — John Muir Every so often a place will...
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Chaos Theory
In walking around southern California, I notice many people are starting to doubt the legitimacy of the rain this record El Niño was said to bring us. Fair enough…we’ve had only one honest storm so...
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Treasured Lands, and our national parks
“Laws change; people die; the land remains.” – Abraham Lincoln As a nation, we have made the decision to set aside large areas of land that remain largely free of development for the sake of saving...
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Closed for business
“If God does not exist, everything is allowed.” – Dostoyevsky’s Ivan Karamazov If you’ve been following the news at all, you know that the US government is in the midst of the longest shutdown in its...
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Open for business: conserving our public lands
The federal government re-opened–somewhat comically–minutes after I finished writing my last blog post. I’m happy to see our government operating normally again. Most importantly, our National Parks...
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